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47 Degrees Imagery Planner

Study the original practice passage below. Find how sensory imagery helps a reader experience extreme heat and understand resilience. Plan a short visual presentation using evidence from the passage. The passage is written for this worksheet and is not an extract from a published book.

Original practice passage: The Long Walk Home

At 47 degrees, the track shimmered like a sheet of glass. Heat pressed against Amira’s skin, and the dry grass crackled beneath her shoes. Somewhere beyond the ridge, a kookaburra gave one sharp laugh, then the bush fell quiet. Her water bottle felt warm in her hand. Amira wanted to stop, but she remembered the younger hikers waiting at the lookout. She took a slow breath, shared the last cool mouthful of water, and kept walking. When the group reached the shade, the breeze touched their faces like a damp cloth. Amira’s legs still trembled, but she smiled: they had made it together.

Notice and analyse the imagery

Use exact words from the passage as evidence. More than one interpretation can be valid if it is supported by the text.

1.Copy the simile that describes the track. What two things are being compared?

2.Match each quotation to the sense it most strongly appeals to: “the dry grass crackled”; “Heat pressed against Amira’s skin”; “a kookaburra gave one sharp laugh”.

“the dry grass crackled”
“Heat pressed against Amira’s skin”
“a kookaburra gave one sharp laugh”

Touch
Hearing
Hearing

3.What does the phrase “Heat pressed against Amira’s skin” mainly help the reader imagine?

The heat feels heavy and hard to escape.
Amira is standing in cool rain.
The track is soft underfoot.
The group is travelling at night.

4.The passage says, “Somewhere beyond the ridge, a kookaburra gave one sharp laugh, then the bush fell quiet.” Explain how the contrast between sound and silence shapes the mood.

5.Copy one phrase that suggests relief near the end of the passage. Explain how it contrasts with the earlier heat imagery.

6.How do Amira’s actions show resilience? Include one detail from the passage and explain what it suggests about her.

7.In “the breeze touched their faces like a damp cloth”, identify the language technique and explain what the comparison helps the reader feel.

8.Plan one panel for a presentation about the passage. Choose a quotation to feature, describe the image you would draw or place beside it, and explain how your visual would reinforce the quotation’s mood.

Sketch the visual you described in Question 8. Add the quotation as a caption and use details that communicate its mood.

9.Write one original sentence about an Australian summer heatwave using a sensory detail and a simile or metaphor. Do not copy a sentence from the passage.